This is James speaking my husband Mark and I met in a private prep school in Connecticut in 1969. Now we are celebrating our 50th anniversar
We would like to thank you for supporting James and Mark Ruggiero in this year's competition. Your participation allows us to aid both the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and Oceana in their respective missions to support hunger relief and ocean conservation.
It began as friends in high school 1969…Doubled at our proms! We’ve shard a lifetime of memories and love! When we got together no one knew of our love! I had to leave my home, my parents told me to leave! Mark and I had no money got a small apartment and counted our Pennie’s! We were from Connecticut moved to California in 1986 and created a great life together! We are celebrating our 50th Anniversary in January so we are having it blessed again! We are so in love together we are so blessed!
What is your favorite memory you've shared as a couple?Our Beautiful wedding with 200 friends and family in Laguna Beach was a dream come true for us both! Professing our love and receiving Gods Blessing was a triumph for Mark and I! We Honeymooned in Bora Bora for two weeks…we found Heaven on earth! To be chosen by you would be the icing on our vow renewal wedding cake! We are so grateful to be considered!
What would you do with $20,000?It would help pay for our celebration of our 50th anniversary, which we plan on having October 4 th back in Connecticut with our family and close friends! We would donate some money to Alzheimer’s research which we believe in as we lost my aunt to that disease.
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